i think they hate obama. they want him out of the white house more than they want to destroy al qaeda. their number one enemy on the right is their hate tread for obama. we can go into that in the white working class in the south about racial hatred in many cases. they want to get rid of this president. that's their number one goal and they're willing to let romney go to the hard center as long as they get rid of this guy. romney went in there tonight with 16 ounce gloves. the way he wanted to win was not making himself into the right winger that the right wing that's supporting him really are. >> i want to take this to steve schmidt right now what i saw in terms of the stylistic and the leaning forward if i can steal our own phrase, was that mitt romney was his only real attack was when he did his riff you apologize and you're weak. obama i felt had a lot of different attacks on romney and romney refused to engage. >> absolutely. mitt romney came across as reasonable, thoughtful, serious, presidential. not s